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‘If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked’: 7 months of shocking private messages among rising GOP leaders

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All are people whom I've never heard of and I won't vote for them.
But you voted for Donald Trump who has said worse.
 
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Should Spanberger withdraw her endorsement from Jones, fearless moral absolutist?
I'm not a moral absolutist (far from it). As to your question: I have no idea as I haven't followed that story and I don't live in NJ, so I'm not sure why I should care.
 
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Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

View attachment 371585

And people are perplexed as why things like DEI exist.
These may be the future of the Republican party, but surely a apple from the tree.
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."--Maya Angelou

Is the ‘joked with a colleague privately’ excuse used for Jay Jones still valid?
 
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There were no Democrat party officials either young or old celebrating Kirk's death.
Well yeah, the Democratic party would need some young officials in the first place. #gerontocracy
 
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Well yeah, the Democratic party would need some young officials in the first place. #gerontocracy

Former President Clinton is younger than Trump, but I agree.
 
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Former President Clinton is younger than Trump, but I agree.
oh jeeez, really? lol

The other day, I went to look up an old Trump speech from 2016 and I was legitimately surprised at how vibrant and coherent he sounded. The content was still... ya know. But he wasn't dragging the way he is now.
 
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oh jeeez, really? lol

The other day, I went to look up an old Trump speech from 2016 and I was legitimately surprised at how vibrant and coherent he sounded. The content was still... ya know. But he wasn't dragging the way he is now.
At this point, we must conclude that 1946 was a mistake.
 
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These threads are increasingly disturbing and I genuinely wonder how some people profess to follow Christ while holding hateful ideologies or condoning them.

~bella
Operative word is "profess.")
 
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oh jeeez, really? lol

The other day, I went to look up an old Trump speech from 2016 and I was legitimately surprised at how vibrant and coherent he sounded. The content was still... ya know. But he wasn't dragging the way he is now.

Well, the American people who actually took the time to get out and vote decided that President Trump was good enough. Kinda shows who really cares about our country.
 
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Rising GOP leaders? Years ago those comments would have sunk their chances.
But they've seen that low information voters are motivated by the vile and vicious. They have chips on their shoulders and want to play the blame game for their failures.
This is not an indictment of all Trump voters. I realize there are intelligent Trump voters whose motives are beyond my powers of deduction.
In short, vile viciousness is a turn on for some voters.
 
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